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Seale and Crooke on peace lessons from the Middle East

Busy painting and moving furniture this weekend so time affords me only pointing to these good recent reads, excerpted here but well worth reading in full. Interestingly, both the first … Continue reading

1 July, 2007 · 8 Comments

Tariq Ali on Creating an Axis of Hope: Latin America and the Middle East

Tariq Ali addressed a Sydney Ideas audience this week, with a lecture on lessons for the Middle East from Latin America, entitled Latin America and the Arab World: Resistance and … Continue reading

28 June, 2007 · 5 Comments

Jonathan Cook on Divide and Rule — A Tale of Two Occupations

In Divide and Rule, Israeli-Style: Can the Arab World be Turned into Gaza’s Jailers? (jkcook.net and Counterpunch, June 26, 2007), Jonathan Cook has written another grim but worthwhile article on … Continue reading

28 June, 2007 · 4 Comments

Paul Findley, still daring to speak out

The U.S. has paid a huge price for subservience to Israel, writes Paul Findley in his most recent article. I’ve appended it slightly truncated and inserted a video (69 minutes) … Continue reading

12 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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